February 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1011 – Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
• 1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
• 1450 – Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
• 1555 – Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
• 1619 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
• 1675 – Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
• 1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
• 1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• 1752 – Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
• 1777 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
• 1782 – Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Lebanese orientalist (b. 1710)
• 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
• 1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
• 1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
• 1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
• 1891 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
• 1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
• 1930 – Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
• 1932 – A.K. Golam Jilani, a Bangladeshi who was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement. (b. 1904)
• 1940 – Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
• 1951 – Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
• 1957 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
• 1960 – Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
• 1960 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1877)
• 1966 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
• 1973 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
• 1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
• 1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
• 1981 – Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
• 1984 – Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
• 1991 – James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
• 1995 – J. William Fulbright, American politician (b. 1905)
• 1995 – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)
• 1999 – Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
• 2001 – Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Robert Kearns, Inventor of the intermittent wiper (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author. (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Scot Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for (The Who) (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
• 2010 – Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)